BIB_ID
284120
Accession number
MA 989
Display Date
1718 July 10.
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Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.2 cm
Notes
Signed by William Sparks with his mark and witnessed with the signatures of John Shaw and Edward Davis.
With an autograph endorsement by George Washington.
With an autograph endorsement by George Washington.
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan from John Heise, 1923.
Summary
Being an Indenture for the lease of 150 acres on Little Hunting Creek on the Potomac River to William Sparks of Stafford County by Mildred Washington Lewis, aunt and godmother to George Washington. This land would eventually become part of Washington's Mount Vernon estate.
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